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Manuela Campanelli
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August 28, 2024
![RIT professor Manuela Campanelli introduces the rest of the team from RIT that worked on simulations and methods to detect gravitational waves.]()
RIT astrophysicist named one of world's most influential female scientists
Democrat and Chronicle highlights the accomplishments of Manuela Campanelli, Distinguished Professor of Astrophysics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. (This content will require a subscription to view.)
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February 19, 2024
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Researchers exploring black hole mergers with $1.8 million NASA award
KIFI-TV talks to Manuela Campanelli, Distinguished Professor of Astrophysics and founding director of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, about being part of a team that will explore the physics of supermassive black hole mergers and galaxy collisions.
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February 9, 2024
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Campanelli named to John Vouros Endowed Professorship
Manuela Campanelli, Distinguished Professor of Astrophysics and founding director of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, has been appointed the John Vouros Endowed Professor.
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January 24, 2024
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RIT leading NASA-funded supermassive black hole research
RIT scientists will be the lead researchers on a $1.8 million NASA grant to study electromagnetic signals from merging supermassive black holes.
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October 24, 2023
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RIT’s Campanelli receives award for work in gravitational wave science
Distinguished Professor Manuela Campanelli has been honored with the American Physical Society’s (APS) 2024 Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science for her extraordinary contributions to and leadership in the understanding and simulation of merging binaries of compact objects in strong-field gravity.
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June 30, 2023
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An experiment that reaches across the galaxy has 'heard' an invisible sea of ripples in space-time for the first time. It's surprisingly loud.
Business Insider talks to Manuela Campanelli, professor in the College of Science and director of Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, about the latest gravitational-wave signal observations.
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June 29, 2023
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RIT astrophysicist comments on supermassive binary black hole discovery
Astrophysicists using large radio telescopes to observe a collection of cosmic clocks in our galaxy have found evidence for gravitational waves that oscillate with periods of years to decades, according to a set of papers published Thursday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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March 9, 2023
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NASA image may show first-ever 'rogue' supermassive black hole, leaving a trail of newborn stars in its wake
Business Insider talks to Manuela Campanelli, professor and director of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, about a new study on black holes.
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November 21, 2022
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Dozens of RIT researchers included on Stanford University’s list of the world’s top 2% of scientists
Numerous Rochester Institute of Technology faculty, professors emeriti, and postdoctoral researchers were recognized as top-cited scientists in their fields, according to a Stanford University study published by Elsevier.
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April 25, 2022
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Gravitational waves gave a new black hole a high-speed ‘kick’
ScienceNews talks to Manuela Campanelli, professor and director of Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation, about interpreting gravitational waves.
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April 13, 2022
![density (left) and cooling function (right) of the surrounding plasma around merging supermassive black holes.]()
Bringing Supermassive Black Hole Mergers to Light
AAS NOVA reports on research conducted by Manuela Campanelli, professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences and director of the Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation.
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January 21, 2022
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Researchers detect 1st merger between black holes with eccentric orbits
Space.com reports on research led by RIT scientists on a merger of two black holes with eccentric orbits.
